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Ask a North Korean: is anyone genuinely loyal to the ruling Kims anymore?

"With my body in chains, I learned that the culprits of our suffering were the incapable leadership"

Today we bring you the third installment of our rebooted Ask a North Korean feature, where NK News readers can send in their questions and have them answered by our North Korean writers.

This is In-hua Kim’s second contribution to NK News. You can read In-hua’s first piece, where she discusses her descent from a comfortable middle-class military-family life to famine and then escape to South Korea, here.

We’re all familiar with DPRK propaganda that shows Kim Jong Un touring the country, greeted everywhere he goes by cheering crowds of his adoring subjects. You would be hard-pressed to find